If looking for a programing language that is more suited to a text reader, then I'd suggest VB, where blocks are more self descriptive, eg: If ... Then ... Else .. End If.
|-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scott |Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 10:59 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: does anyone know a good technique to keep track of your braces in |C#? | |Katherine, from what I understand you are vision-impaired? I can understand that |braces would quickly become a problem for you. Maybe you could look into a |language like F# which uses tabs for nesting rather than braces. There would be a |learning curve but that may be worthwhile in the long term. Other alternatives |are Ruby and Coffeescript - Coffeescript may be a good start as you may be able |to leverage that in to developing Javascript-based Windows 8 apps. | |Other than that I would recommend just making sure each brace is on a new line |so that you can see the nesting. It is tempting to cram as much on each line but in |the long run spreading it out makes it much easier to maintain. Also use a brace |whenever you can, so no shortcuts like: | |if (something) Foo(); | |Instead always do: | |if (something) |{ | Foo(); |} | | | | |On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <crai...@gmail.com> |wrote: | | | Sounds like you have too much nesting. If you have more than a couple |of levels maybe try separating it out into new methods. Hard to tell without |seeing the code. | | | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Katherine Moss |<katherine.m...@gordon.edu> wrote: | | | Hello all, | Does anyone know any methods I could use when practicing |programming in C# (I'm kind of just learning, so it can get annoying sometimes), |to keep my braces straight? I will be writing something simple, and then before I |know it, I'll have fifty errors show up all because of one brace not closed or two |braces in the wrong place. Very annoying when fifty errors come up because of a |single problem. And not only in keeping track of braces, I'm also confused as to |what goes in between braces since C# gets layered sometimes in terms of code |blocks. Books demonstrate examples well, however, they do not do a very good |job telling you where braces go to begin with and why. Responses would be |great on this. Thanks. | | | |
